This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreAn Icelandic thinktank, Alda, has published a report on two multiyear studies that indicate it really is better to work smarter, not harder – or not longer at least. Workers in a four-day… Read the rest “People get more done working a four-day week.”
Technology Networks reports on new Yale University research that apparently explains why psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, has a long-lasting antidepressant… Read the rest “Magic mushrooms make lasting changes to the brain (and that’s a good thing).”
Recode echoes a warning published in PNAS and signed by 17 researchers in fields as disparate as climate science, biology, and philosophy. They’re convinced that the rapid rise … Read the rest “Social media a threat to humanity, warn biologists, ecologists, and other unlikely experts.”
An illustration of two reptiles, from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium II. These two creatures were painted sometime in the first decade of the 1700s by German illustrator Dorothea… Read the rest “Science Art: Spectacled Caiman and a False Coral Snake by Dorothea Maria Graff”
Inverse considers the environmental power of the cow, whose immense domestic population increases greenhouse gases (pardon me), but could also, new research proposes, be harnessed … Read the rest “Using cows to end plastic pollution.”
New Scientist looks at a possible new addition to the human family tree, an early human skull found in Harbin, China, and tentatively named Homo longi (from the Chinese long, meaning “dragon”)…… Read the rest “Dragon man? Or Denisovan?”
Science Daily shares UC Santa Cruz research into the strange psychological effects of virtual reality, which literally lets your brain lose track of time in a way no other experience does… Read the rest “Virtual reality messes with time.”
This bat is probably misnamed, since its wings are hands and it has a digit in those wings it would recognize as a thumb, just a very small one that is “enclosed in the edge of the wing membrane,”… Read the rest “Science Art: Thumbless Bat, 1857”
Inverse looks at a potential answer to the puzzle of why, in a universe filled with so many stars, we haven’t found any evidence of any life out there. It might be, says David Kipping … Read the rest “Why haven’t we found aliens? Maybe because the most common star type is lousy at sustaining life.”
SONG: “Dream Agency”.
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SOURCE: Science, 11 June 21, “Are advertisers coming for your dreams?,” as used in the post “Advertising in your… Read the rest “SONG: Dream Agency”
Scientific American is looking up at the night sky and wondering if some new legal cases will keep the stars from being blotted out by brilliant chains of linked satellites:
… Read the rest “Satellite trains face a legal challenge.”The California-based
This image, from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, shows a fusion reaction contained by a force field. The magnetic fields force the plasma – the stuff being fused – into a … Read the rest “Science Art: ITER 3D plasma equilibrium with ripple contours (4071616631)”
New Scientist reports on the latest equipment – a magnet stronger than any other – being sent from California to France for installation in ITER, the reactor that replicates… Read the rest “The world’s most powerful magnet is heading to an experimental fusion reactor.”
Science magazine covers the pushback from researchers who fear a new battleground for spam and advertisers inside our sleeping minds:
… Read the rest “Advertising in your dreams”This week, a group of 40 dream researchers has pushed
New Scientist explains that reason Betelgeuse recently appeared to dim in the sky was that it was expelling gas:
… Read the rest “Betelgeuse burped.”Miguel Montargès at Sorbonne University in France and his colleagues may
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